February 22, Minsk /BELTA correspondent/. The Vitebsk Regional Prosecutor's Office has sent a criminal case to court against a resident of the Rossony District, born in 1957, who is charged with illegal hunting, resulting in damage on a particularly large scale.
February 22, Minsk /BELTA correspondent/. The Vitebsk Regional Prosecutor's Office has sent a criminal case to court against a resident of the Rossony District, born in 1957, who is charged with illegal hunting, resulting in damage on a particularly large scale. BELTA was informed about this by the information service of the Vitebsk Regional Prosecutor's Office.
According to the case materials, a resident of the Rossony District, previously convicted of illegal hunting in 2019, has not reformed. Between October 10 and November 23, 2020, within the territory of the Sokolishchansky forestry of the State Forestry Institution "Rossony Forest Enterprise", using a prohibited snare, he intentionally hunted a female elk for mercenary motives, without possessing a state certificate for the right to hunt, a permit for hunting the specified regulated game species, or a hunting permit for it.
The damage caused to the environment amounted to 900 basic units.
Continuing his criminal intent, the man partially butchered the female elk carcass with a knife, then carried the head and parts of the forelimbs in a plastic bag from the butchering site to a stream, where he placed them in the water for storage. The accused was soon detained by employees of the State Forestry Institution "Rossony Forest Enterprise".
After reviewing the case materials, the Vitebsk Regional Prosecutor's Office concluded that the charges were well-founded, the collected evidence was sufficient, and the circumstances of the crime were fully and objectively investigated. They agreed with the legal qualification of the act under Part 4 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code.
The criminal case was under the production of the Investigative Committee Department for the Vitebsk Region. The prosecutor, when sending the case to court, left the pre-trial measure of restraint chosen for the resident of the Rossony District unchanged – detention.